Happy Mother's Day!

I saw the coolest & cutest thing today.  Mama Bird teaching Baby Bird how to fly.  Quite the experience.

Christmas in May

I received the most wonderful gifts from my coworker this morning:

beebalm - great for the hummingbirds!

mountain mint - smells yummy!

wild white indigo - this one is still tiny so I hope I don't kill it  :o/

I can't wait to plant them and see how well they do.  They're pretty hardy plants, so I feel confident.  I was telling my husband that as soon as I get my garden just how I want it, it'll be time to move. 

My sunflowers aren't doing as well as I expected them to be at this point--oddly enough there was an article about sunflowers in the Southern Magazine I picked up to read during my work out today--sounds like I should have transplanted the seedlings into my garden a while ago.  Oops.  I'll do that this weekend when I transplant the gifts I received today.  *happy*

*Images from novascotiagardening.com, wildcrafting.com, & northcreeknurseries.com*

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Thenagirl

I'm not sure if I've discussed this before, but Athena's been leaking urine at night. Bloodwork was done (to rule out effects of Rimadyl) as well as a urinalysis. Nothing, but we put her on antibiotics for 10 days just to make sure. The thought was better to do antibiotics for a while to see if that takes care of it rather than putting her on another chronic medication. Honestly, I hadn't checked her since the end of the antibiotics to see if they were working. Then this morning I woke up, thought it was strange that she wasn't in her bed, and then saw that her bed was soaked! :o( I'd do a sadder face if I could. It's especially disappointing since she had only been leaking a little bit--last night was the first night that was a major event. Part of me holds out hope that the cat decided to make it her litter box.

The next question becomes do I put her on another medication or just buy washable doggie diapers? The easiest thing would be the medication--but it wouldn't be easy on the wallet.

Poo.

Food for thought

I don't know how many times over the years I've tried doing a food journal. I can also tell you the number of nutrition & exercise tracking websites I've been a member of are getting up there.

I just get a little peeved that I can't find one that I really like that gives me everything I'm looking for. Perhaps part of it is that it's just so time consuming & cumbersome to track everything. And what do you do when the site you're using doesn't have the nutrition info of what you just ate...then you have to add it manually...bleh.

I downloaded the Lose It! app on my iphone last night (free). I had downloaded it before but never used it. So I tackled it with renewed enthusiasm. Weighed myself to enter my weight, signed up for reminders, etc. To reach my goal weight (which is actually a little over zealous) by a particular date, it set my calories at 1295. Not that awful in my opinion.

Today marked my first day of food tracking.
Breakfast = 230 cals. Around 10:00am I started calculating the calories in the lunch I packed. SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE! I would've been left with only 147 calories for dinner. WHAT?! I was floored. And I thought I was packing a good lunch--turkey sandwich, two carrots, dried apricots (yes, I tried them--not sure I like the texture on the outside, but I can handle it), and I think most of the calories came from the 100 calorie Cheezit pack & the vanilla Snack Pack. But none of that mattered because...

My husband IMs me and says, "Hey, how 'bout we go to El Torito for lunch?" "Okay!" So not only did I eat a more unhealthy lunch, but I also didn't work out. :oP Needless to say, I didn't try to track my dinner.

I'll try again tomorrow.

*image from http://stolzenhaus.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/lose-it-iphone-app-wow-was-i-wasting-calories-on-junk/*

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